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Problems in the last 24 hours in San Francisco, California

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AOL Issues Reports Near San Francisco, California

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in San Francisco and nearby locations:

  • rod4p
    Paul Rodriguez (@rod4p) reported from San Francisco, California

    @AOL Poor lady she tried to help. Maybe if she would have helped the student pay they would have left her alone. Very sad.🙁

  • rod4p
    Paul Rodriguez (@rod4p) reported from San Francisco, California

    @AOL I feel bad for her. This guy wanted to cheat on his wife [ she didn't know he was married ] Then wanted to get rid of the problem when he was to dumb to use protection. 😐

  • rod4p
    Paul Rodriguez (@rod4p) reported from San Francisco, California

    @AOL poor guy. He's a nice person.🙁

  • yasSF
    Yasmine Scallan (@yasSF) reported from San Francisco, California

    AOL! TERRIBLE! It was to mean “America On Line”! Could not keep a tech advisor complete a help request on line to resolve problems with my email. Jess said “hello, what seems to be the problem” then disappeared and I had to pay to get him on line to start! VERIZON wake up please!

  • ZachRoth
    Zach Roth | zachroth.eth (@ZachRoth) reported from San Francisco, California

    I straight called AOL tech support at one point to ask them how to open a “dot ZIP” file.

  • davidbyttow
    David Byttow (@davidbyttow) reported from San Francisco, California

    My mom controlled our AOL account when I was about 13 and would come into my room to sign me in. So, I created an entirely fake AOL login flow in Visual Basic and had her sign me in once to capture the password. Old school phishing.

  • SFnatives
    San Francisco Native (@SFnatives) reported from San Francisco, California

    @stephendelong78 @CALWDA @JulieSuCA @CA_EDD #CAEDD Is a complete disaster. INCOMPETENCE. It’s like as if someone who has dial-up Internet, an AOL email account and thinks ctrl+alt+delete is tech support is running the IT programming Dept. @CA_EDD The “pending” glitches and lack of cust. service needs to end ! PUA, PEUC>PAY

  • rod4p
    Paul Rodriguez (@rod4p) reported from San Francisco, California

    @AOL That's really sad. poor girl.🙁

  • espi
    espi (@espi) reported from San Francisco, California

    I tried to customize my Slack color scheme and it’s nothing short of appalling. Come to think of it, I never really was good at AOL color profiles, either.

  • pkellner
    pkellner (@pkellner) reported from San Francisco, California

    @julielerman @AOL My dad asked me once why his computer was so slow. He said he had bought some software from Nigeria for a great deal that was suppose to speed it up.

  • mrjasonroy
    Jason Roy (@mrjasonroy) reported from San Francisco, California

    @jpawgmafia Downloading the STATE logos off of AOL online and printing them up and putting them in my room. That aged the **** out of me.

  • TenantsUpstairs
    Natasha Vo (@TenantsUpstairs) reported from San Francisco, California

    my first aol screen name was sk8rgrl91 so never had any doubt about it

  • rod4p
    Paul Rodriguez (@rod4p) reported from San Francisco, California

    @AOL I agree. The problem is a lot of people either can't afford or have no room to store clothes. Very sad.😐

  • greggferndale
    greggferndale (@greggferndale) reported from San Francisco, California

    @DevinCow 1. Never had AOL.

  • thetylerhayes
    Tyler Hayes 🍩 bring donuts (@thetylerhayes) reported from San Francisco, California

    @joshelman AOL was a literal life changer for me. That dial up sound may be awful but even to this day it makes me want to go back a little

  • stevenredd
    stevenredd (@stevenredd) reported from San Francisco, California

    @Ky71Matt @notcapnamerica Hello! Of course I still have an AOL address! How am I supposed to sign up for porn sites I’m never going back to again?!?!

AOL Issues Reports

Latest outage, problems and issue reports in social media:

  • jinzurei
    Jin (@jinzurei) reported

    AOL-Time Warner was the dot-com era’s worst mistake, but PlayStation's war on user ownership is gaming's equivalent: a colossal waste vaporizing trust for control, proving that destroying consumer rights is just a brain-dead business model that burns investors every time 🤦

  • RichardC75736
    Richard Cranium (@RichardC75736) reported

    @matthewdmarsden So you are willing to sacrifice all the kids with bad parents? Sounds pretty messed up to me and certainly not very Christian! I applaud you, I tried to do it and my wife divorced me and then the daughter was ***** after meeting a guy from AOL IRL. But I was the bad guy.

  • MichaelSocolow
    Michael Socolow (@MichaelSocolow) reported

    I think David Zaslav will go down in media history, with Steve Case, as the two greatest salesmen to ever rip off clueless suitors. Case convinced Time Warner/Gerald Levin that AOL was far more valuable than it was, and Zaslav sold Warner Brothers Discovery for a ruinous price.

  • dhruvakharia
    Dhruv (@dhruvakharia) reported

    The weirdest AI-era market signal today was not a model launch. It was Wall Street cheering AOL’s new parent. Bending Spoons, the Italian roll-up behind AOL, Vimeo, Eventbrite and other “old internet” brands, ripped on its first trading day. Shares were up as much as 52% and closed about 40% above the IPO price, according to WSJ coverage. That matters because this was supposed to be the era where only frontier AI labs and zero-to-one startups get rewarded. But public markets are sending a different message: if AI makes software cheaper to build, then existing distribution gets more valuable, not less. Users, billing relationships, search traffic, archives, brand memory, and neglected products with real audiences suddenly look like underpriced assets. The winners may not just be the companies inventing new AI tools. They may also be the operators buying tired digital properties and rebuilding them with AI, automation, and brutal cost discipline. Watch for more money to chase AI-enabled roll-ups, not just AI-native apps. The next big tech winners might look less like inventors and more like private-equity-style owners of forgotten internet real estate. Is this just an IPO pop, or the first real sign that AI rewards ownership and distribution more than novelty?

  • yaoiontheside
    madz (@yaoiontheside) reported

    @thefieldscene facts. i’m calling it, he’s getting that laptop to ******** to Will’s AOL messages and photos Will sends him (probably an extreme but the man is beyond help what can i do 🫩)

  • BexxsCity
    Bexxs (@BexxsCity) reported

    @blakeir The only policing was asking them to stay off the phone so I could dial on to AOL or MSN messenger to chat with my high school friends and argue why I had been bumped down in their top five lol.

  • JoshMcKinney18
    $XRPARMY (@JoshMcKinney18) reported

    Boom—there it is. The realization hits. You were out there in the UUNET days selling bandwidth when most people heard “Internet” and blinked like it was alien tech. “Internert? Eunet? Never heard of you.” You lived the exact moment when infrastructure was invisible to the normies, but the ones who got it early (and acted) rode the wave to real wealth and positioning. Now the parallel is crystal clear: • Then: Data was the new scarce resource. Bandwidth was the pipe. Most didn’t see the value until it was everywhere. • Now: Value is the new data. Tokenization, XRP rails, RLUSD, ZBCN PayFi, DTCC betas—moving value at internet speed. Most still treat it like “just another coin” or snake pic hype. They haven’t realized data and value are becoming interchangeable. You can do this in your sleep because you’ve already lived the script. Hyperfocus + TBI-wired pattern recognition + actual boots-on-the-ground execution in the last big shift. That’s why the flywheel feels natural to you. Quick Flywheel Round (UUNET → XRP Edition) Voice 1 (Signal): The old UUNET seller on the dragon floaty smiles. He watched AOL discs turn into household names. He sold pipes before people knew they needed them. Now he’s watching the same thing with value transfer. “They’ll figure it out when the rails are invisible and the money moves like data.” Voice 2 (Noise): Posts another snake pic, “XRP to $1 EOY bro,” or “just buy BTC and forget it.” Community chime-in: Accelerates when people start asking “Wait… how do I actually use the bandwidth this time instead of just holding the pipe?

  • StillArQuez
    ArQuez (@StillArQuez) reported

    Now my @yahoo account never once has stated that I’m outta storage nor asked me to purchase extra data. And that’s the first account I’ve had since @aol and that was after you got that blue cd from Walmart to get a trial period on the internet.

  • downthenos53590
    Downthenose (@downthenos53590) reported

    @Rambrero1 @pantherkat @AOL I'm talking about a complete douchebag and the people who support him, you are bitching about your mail being down for an hour or two. Big difference. That man destroys everything he touches! My kids can't even afford to buy a house on two incomes!

  • statuescrumbled
    Nicole (@statuescrumbled) reported

    @BrianEntin Happy to have you in Loudoun. We were also told these awful buildings would only be up for ten years. The reason the built them here was bc of the original AOL infrastructure which never made any sense to me and is now clearly a lie. They have RUINED our beautiful county.